My favourite New Year’s Day tradition doesn’t involve parades or football games or overindulging in sweets. For this girl, it is all about books. Shocking, no?

A pile ‘o books and calendars.

This pile ‘o goodies is the result of my annual New Year’s Day Book and Calendar Hunt. As you can see, the 2013 edition was quite successful. I decided to by-pass literature in favour of selections from the genres of art, biography, and silent film. Here are a few of the highlights:

Our Motto, Our Mantra, Our Inspiration

"Young or old, those who have anything to say will have their own way of saying it."-Robert McAlmon

Words of Vigor and Creativity

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."-Henry David Thoreau
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."-Sir John Lubbock
"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down,but the staying down."-Mary Pickford
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."-Alfred Adler
"Real poverty is the loss of imagination."-Denyce Graves
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."-James D. Watson

Freshly Pressed in Honor of Frank

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